Spring clasp for holding gloves



Dec. 6, 1949 B Q ETAL 2,490,405

SPRING CLASP FOR HOLDING GLOVES Filed Jan. 23, 1948 19/3954 5400/? INVENTQRS BY My ,0,

O I '1 v Patented Dec. 6, 1949 OFFICE I 2,490,405- SPRING CLASP FOR HOLDING GLOVES Gertrude Bloom and Israel Bloom, New York, N, Y.

Application. January 23, 1948-, Serial No. 3,944

1 Claim. 1

The invention here disclosed is a device for holding ladies gloves.

Objects of the invention are to provide a device which can be readily caught to a ladys handbag or the like and which will then serve as a convenient and practical means for carrying the gloves then being used.

Special objects of the invention are to provide such a device, which will lie close and flat against the side of the handbag and form an attractive appurtenance to the bag and which in that location can be quickly and easily opened to receive or release a pair of gloves and which in its closed condition will securely hold the gloves in a flattened shape, without unduly rumpling or wrinkling the same.

Further objects of the invention are to provide a device of the character indicated which will be of small size and light in weight and which with all its advantages will be of relatively simple and inexpensive construction.

Other desirable objects attained by the invention are set forth or will appear in the course of the following specification.

The drawing accompanying and forming part of the specification illustrates a present practical embodiment of the invention but structure may be modified and changed as regards the immediate illustration, all within the true intent and broad scope of the invention as hereinafter defined and claimed.

Figure 1 in the drawing is a perspective view showing the device in use on a ladys handbag.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the holder, on a larger scale and with the attaching chain shown broken away.

Figures 3 and 4 are longitudinal and transverse sectional views on substantially the planes of lines 33 and &--4 of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a perspective View showing how the device is opened by application of bending pressure on the spring back or base portion of the article.

As shown in Figure 1, the device is in the nature of a substantially flat clasp which will hold a pair of gloves '5, in generally fiat, smooth condition and which can be suspended in that fiat relation over the side of a ladys pocketbook or handbag 3 by means of a chain or other satisfactory connection 9, caught about a handle or other suitable portion iii of the bag.

The clasp is composed of a generally straight or somewhat bowed, bendable spring back plate II and a companion, arched, relatively rigid,

front, clamp plate l2, hinged together at one end and yieldably caught together at the opposite end.

In the example, the hinge is provided by a central portion I 3 at the end of the upper or outer member curled through a transverse slot M in the end portion of the inner or back member and a spring retainer for yieldingly holding the opposite ends is provided by curling over the end of the spring plate in a loop IE to overstand the free end of the clamp plate.

The loop l5 in addition to serving as a keeper for the end of the clamp plate, provides, as indicated in Figure 5, a convenient finger grip for releasing it from the end of the front plate and is utilized further here for attachment of the supporting chain 9, shown as passed therethrough.

The back plate II is shown in Figure 3 as slightly bowed to cause it to exert a gripping eifect over the end of the front plate. By buckling it in the opposite direction under finger pressure as applied in Figure 5, the effect will be to spread or open the keeper away from the end of and hence to release the front plate.

The front plate is shown as arched so as to readily accommodate any ordinary or usual pair of gloves.

To maintain this arch and give the plate a desired degree of rigidity it is shown as corrugated longitudinally in alternate ridges and grooves l6. These alternate ridges and grooves serve the further purpose of more securely gripping the enclosed gloves.

The chain is shown as having a ring type separable fastener l1 which can be readily un coupled and then recoupled to enable a person to quickly connect the holder to a bag or other support with which it is desired to use it.

Consisting of but two main parts the device is of simple, inexpensive construction and lies flat against the handbag, where it is out of the way but conveniently reached to place or remove the gloves. The corrugations grip and firmly hold the gloves and add a note of decoration, making the device appear as a decoration in addition to its purely utilitarian purposes.

What is claimed is:

A spring clasp for holding a pair of gloves, comprising companion front and back glove clasping plates hingedly connected together at one end; said front plate being arched away from said back plate and having longitudinally ex- 3 tending corrugations stiffening and permanently maintaining the same in rigid, arched formation and providing ridges at the inner side of the plate for gripping engagement with gloves inserted between the two plates; and said back plate being flexible and resilient and having an angularly ofiset curled loop at the free end of the same engageable over the free end of the rigid front plate to yieldingly retain the clasp plates closed over a pair of gloves, and said flexible, resilient back plate further being slightly bowed away from said rigid, arched front plate so that externally applied pressure to effect straightening of the same may effect release of said retaining loop from holding engagement 15 1,444,030

over the end of the rigidly arched front plate; and a flexible connection extending through said retaining loop for suspending said clasp from a pocketbook or other support.

GERTRUDE BLOOM. ISRAEL BLOOM.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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